BOATING FATALITY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 130, 6 June 1927, Page 11

BOATING FATALITY

IN SIGHT OF FERRY STEAMER

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

AUCKLAND, This Day

On Saturday afternoon William James Harradine, aged 21, of Grimsby, England, James MaeDonald, of Berrie, Scotland, and Charles Clearyy England, set out for a sail in a dinghy from the schooner. Margaret W., on which they were employed as able seamen. About 4 o 'clock a sudden squall came up, overturning the dinghy close to tho ferry steamer Lake Takapuna, which was just leaving King's Wharf, and to the ferry steamer Toroa, which was returning from Devonport. Both vessels were well filled with passengers. Lifebuoys were flung to the three men struggling in the water, and a boat launched from the Lake Takapuna. Harradine, however, who* could not swim, was drowned, and Mac Donald, who clung to a lifebuoy, was pulled into the boat from the Lake Takapuna in an exhausted condition, and immediately collapsed into unconsciousness. He was semi-conscious by the time the boat reached shore, and was removed to hospital, where he is progressing favourably. M'Cleary was rescued little the woTse for his experience. • Several women on the ferry boats who were eye-witnesses of the tragedy were in an hysterical condition on teaching the wharf.